Tuesday, January 27, 2009
yesterday went with hazwani my arabiah fren to sci centre to catch the partial solar eclipse. We went there quite early, around 2.30 -3 pm. Unfortunately i didnt perform zuhur prayers at home...(grrr to myself) so poor hazwani had to accompany me to solat near the some sort of like a public resting area. That resulted in my trousers and shirt to be stained with damp soil..since it rained.
After that, we went to ,mcdonalds to have lunch. Hazwani had lucnch already, so she bought nuggets only. I bought the mega prosperity meal!!! ehehehe
the queue to the observatory area was already like SUPER long when we reached there!! haizz...so whilst waiting to receive our solar glasses and tix, we ate our meal. The mega prosperity beef burger was soooo delicious!! but it was too big for me to finish it by myself...so shared it with hazwani...ehehehe....i also ate some of her nuggets too..ehehe...cukai cukai..
so pendekkan cite...we were already at the observatory...ready to watch the eclipse...it was like a dream. i just couldnt believe my eyes that i really am wacthing an eclipse happening. From the solar lenses, the suns seems so far from us..but the eclipse was clear thank god. but i did see the close up-version of the eclipse !! so nice masya allah.
At 4.30 pm, the moon had already covered a bit of the sun, and at around 5.20, the sun was almost half covered. And at round 5.49 to 6, the sun was 80 percent covered. After that, the cloud cover made it hard for us to see it. when it was already 6.30, the sun sets, so the sun had moved away from the moon. So, the eclipse has ended.
For others who wanna see how the solar partial eclipse was like, sorry i couldnt find any actual photos of the eclipse happening yesterday in any of the websites..plus when we were ate the sci centere we were advised not to take iot since it will destroy the cam lenses, bleh amik thru the telescope aje..but with th big crowd takiong turns to look at the eclipse..we thik that it is unapprpopiate to make the queue wait for a few mins just to have a pic of the eclipse taken through a camera. Plus its hard to take it anyway..:)
an example of a partial solar eclipse:
this reminds me of Heroes...ehehehehe
